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I am a Turkish-Algerian Chicana

Posted by asmamer on November 9th, 2008 | Categorized as General Forum | Tagged as , , | 149 views and 7 Comments

I am a B-TCK= “Bi-Third Culture Kid”
“Je lutte avec les emotions de ne pas apartenir:
je suis ni blanche ni noir
ni hetero ni homo
ni asiatique ni europeenne
ni turque ni arabe
ni americaine ni etrangere
liberale mais croyante
chais pas ou j’appartiens du tout”
“I struggle with feelings of not belonging:
I am neither white nor black
neither straight nor gay
neither asian nor european
neither turkish nor arab
neither american nor foreigner
liberal but a believer
I dunno where I belong at all”

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I was born in Durham, UK to an Algerian mother and Turkish father who were students. I grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, and currently live in the US. My parents live in the US too -in a different city, my mom teaches at a college-, my brother travels around but is mostly in Istanbul. My native languages: as a young child: English and Arabic. from elementary sch to college: Turkish. During middle school: Turkish and French. Right now: English and Turkish. I am hopefully about to graduate from college and do not know which country waits for me next.

7 Comments to “I am a Turkish-Algerian Chicana”


7 Responses to “I am a Turkish-Algerian Chicana”

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    Brice Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    I love this poem. Gave it 5 stars. :)

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    Mayling Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    B-TCK? How does that work?
    Welcome to the group anyway :D

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    miyon Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I think many Bi TCKs can resonate with this a lot. Cheers for asmamer! haha

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    USAFinn Says:
    November 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Nice poem! It puts it in a way I can understand, since I’m not a B TCK. :) I like it, keep up the good work!

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    mairabay Says:
    November 16th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    hi asmamer!
    J’ai beaucoup aimé votre poème! très très bien!

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    asmamer Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Thank you very much all! I just saw the comments and it was a good surprise, really didn’t expect this kinda response, you guys are flattering me.

    Merci beaucoup mairabay, chui gatee par tes compliments.

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    asmamer Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    to Mayling: the B stands for bisexual and hence the “neither straight, nor gay”.

    About the TCK, I think CCK actually probably works better for me, but my understanding is that TCK encompasses CCKs, probably because it was chronologically coined earlier?

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